nidaq mxbase suse 10.1

[arvindb]

Hi,
I am trying to run daq mxBase 2.0 on SUSE 10.1, kernel  2.6.16.13-4-smp, 32-bit x86. I installed NI-KAL 1.3 without any errors. The DAQ mxBase installation found version 1.3 of nikali during the installation and finished again without any errors. But lsdaq detects no cards althought lspci shows the presence of two PCI cards correctly as shown below.

01:00.0 Class ff00: National Instruments PCI-MIO-16E-1
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
    Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
    Latency: 16, Cache Line Size 10
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 217
    Region 0: Memory at feafb000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Region 1: Memory at feafc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

01:01.0 Class ff00: National Instruments PCI-6052E
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
    Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
    Latency: 16, Cache Line Size 10
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 225
    Region 0: Memory at feafd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Region 1: Memory at feafe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

The following kernel modules also appear to be loaded

    nipxirmk              127700  1
    nidimk                332200  2 nipxirmk
    niorbk                134196  2 nipxirmk,nidimk
    nipalk               1253744  5 nipxirmk,nidimk,niorbk
    nikal                  63316  3 nipalk
    usbcore               116612  4 nikal,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd



Running mxbaseconfig fails with the following error

Can't load LabVIEW runtime library /usr/local/lib/liblvrt.so.8.0
libOSMesa.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory




Has anyone else seen this with Suse 10.1. Is the kernel not yet supported? I'll be happy to post more informatin as necessary.

Thanks,

Arvind

[Travis G.]

Hello Arvind,

Unfortunately, the only versions of the SUSE Linux distributions that are supported by the NI-DAQmx Base 2.0 driver are versions 9.2 and 9.3, so National Instruments has not tested to verify whether this driver will work in SUSE 10.1.  Do you happen to have a USB-600x device installed on this computer as well as your PCI devices?  If so, there is a known issue thats covered in this Knowledgebase:

KB 3V6CDRX1: No NI DAQ Devices Appear in lsdaq

I also found the following post which discusses a reason why SUSE 10.0 is not supported by the NI-DAQmx Base driver but it may apply to your distribution as well:

Discussion Forum: NIDAQmx and popen()

Sorry I couldn't be of more help,

Travis G.
Applications Engineering
National Instruments
www.ni.com/support